cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Late Night Music Video — Mashup via Rubik Cubes
The Beatles and the Clash! [dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ek87_top-10_creation[/dailymotion] h/t Andrew Sullivan
QOTD
Shamelessly stolen from Balloon Juice, except ours is a two part question: Is there anyone in public life with a mustache who isn’t a buffoon? (Delaware version) Is there anyone in public life with a mustache who isn’t a buffoon? (Nationwide version) Anyone else? Add their names in the comments….
The Ad That Only Batters Women When You Aren’t Looking
Via Gizmodo — a bus stop ad that can tell when you aren’t looking at it. When you are looking, you see what appears to be a happy couple. When you look away, the picture is of the guy apparently beating up the woman. Very, very powerful and one of the cleverest meetings of compelling […]
Branding Fail — International Edition
The new joint venture of Russia’s oil and gas company Gazprom and Nigeria’s state-owned energy company isn’t going to help them have markets everywhere. Sorry folks, you really have to click through on that one.
The Bought Off — Health Care Edition
See the details here. Make sure to look at the entire thing — there are great spreadsheets and other data here. But as you listen to the back and forth of the health care discussion, be familiar with the Bought Off and treat their commentary accordingly: TOP 10 SENATE RECIPIENTS: McCain, John (R-AZ) $251,834 McConnell, […]
Comment Rescue — Why Not Single Payer?
Friday, Geezer asked a very good question that I didn’t have time to get to in the Frank Luntz thread. His question: Why should we be for a non-single-payer “reform” plan? Before I get to that and ask you guys to weigh in, I want to put up some resources to look at and to […]
Want This Job? Give Us Your Google and Facebook Passwords, Please
This is just plain crazy. Make sure you go see the form — if you were applying for a job in Bozeman, MT, you’d also have to disclose and give them edit access to all of your online life. Background checks are one thing (and an overused thing at that), but giving up your passwords […]
New Rules — We Need A Real Democratic Party Edition
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrCR8TndvYk[/youtube]
Frank Luntz Tells Them What to Say — Health Care Edition
Everyone who has paid attention to politics since Bill Clinton knows the name of Frank Luntz. He is a GOP pollster whose specialty is messaging. As in finding the words that either make it easier for people to emotionally engage on a position. Key to this effort is that truth or accuracy or anything near […]
The Bankrupt Rhetoric of Rationing
Health care rationing that is. David Leonhardt at the NYT has another Must Read article detailing all of the ways that health care is rationed in the US. Today, I want to try to explain why the case against rationing isn’t really a substantive argument. It’s a clever set of buzzwords that tries to hide […]
Hammer Pants Flash Mob
Step back, people — the Hammer Pants Flash Mob is here to give Jason330 the mother of all flashbacks. Don’t want anyone to get hurt. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfxCnZ4Dp3c[/youtube]
Why Do Congressional Republicans Hate The Troops?
We don’t expect you to actually answer this, but what is it with these people? They’ve decided to vote against a war funding supplemental — something that used to be the Most UnAmerican.Thing.Ever. What I really want to know is: whether you’ve seen or heard of any reports of this action giving aid and comfort […]
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